Potato News

Auckland company Taste Technologies has developed a sorting method that can find out if potatoes have the Zebra chip disease before they are sent to manufacturers. NIR (or near-infrared) technology works by shining a light on the potato as it travels...

Cosmo Restaurants Sdn Bhd, which holds the franchise for Burger King restaurants in Malaysia, plans to open 50 more outlets in the next five years.  Director of operations Khaled Hamman said the company was finalising its business expansion plan.  “W...

Record food prices are unlikely to ease in the foreseeable future, as high grain demand and low stocks mean the world remains vulnerable to possible food shocks, a United Nations expert said on Monday. Efforts to increase wheat output may not be enough...

What's for lunch? Whatever it is, for most people, it comes from a to-go box. The same goes for breakfast and dinner;a home-cooked meal is simply a rare luxury for many busy Americans. According to the Restaurant Association, 80 percent of people surv...

China Petroleum &Chemical Corp (Sinopec) and McDonald's Corp have opened their first combination service station and restaurant in Beijing, the Shanghai Business Review reported, citing sources.

Unilever consumer scientists claim that simple front-of-pack logos will be most effective in helping consumers make the healthy choice in the supermarket. In the journal Appetite, the scientists report on the efficacy of eight front-of-pack nutrition l...

Fluctuations in mass flow can have serious consequences for the product quality in the freezing or frying process. In addition, not running a line optimally can result in increased downtime, as operators must stop the line to clean the conveying belt....

Variabel poten met behulp van GPS geeft bij alle beproefde rassen een verbetering van de opbrengst en sortering. Dit zorgt voor een gemiddelde financiële meeropbrengst van € 241 tot € 291 per hectare. Dat stelt The Soil Company in een analyse van vie...

Danish Crown's subsidiary Tulip Food Company has had to recall a number of products from its frozen meal range due to some risk that the potatoes contained within them may have been contaminated with petrol, local media report. The potatoes used by Tu...

Staff of a Denver-area organization supposedly brokering a deal to set up an organic potato processing facility in Center were reluctant to release information locally about the proposal but told residents of Grand Forks, North Dakota, they might have ...

With effect from 1 April 2008 Martin van de Ven (53) will be appointed as CEO of Aviko, business group of Royal Cosun. In this capacity he will remain a member of Cosun’s Executive Board and he becomes responsible for Aviko’s national and international...

Now the proceedings are published of the conference "Food in Action"that was held on 29 - 30 November 2007 in Brussels. Full powerpoint presentations plus audio are available online, providing a great way to review these presentations.The cen...